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DHCP Autoconfiguration / Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
(Page 3 of 3)
APIPA Limitations
Bear in mind that APIPA is not a
proper replacement for full DHCP. The 169.254.0.0/16 block is a private
IP range and comes with all the
limitations of private IP addresses, including
inability to use these addresses on the Internet. Also, APIPA cannot
provide the other configuration parameters that a client may need to
get from a DHCP server. Finally, APIPA will not work properly in conjunction
with proxy ARP,
because the proxy will respond for any of the private addresses, so
they will all appear to be used.
Since it uses ARP to check for address
conflicts, APIPA is not well-suited for large internetworks. To use
it on an internetwork with multiple subnets, you would require software
that allows each subnet to use a different portion of the full 169.254.0.0/16
blocks, to avoid conflicts. In practice, APIPA is a solution for small
networks; large internetworks deal with the problem of not being able
to contact a DHCP server by making sure that a client can always contact
a DHCP server. J
Key Concept: An optional DHCP feature called Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA) was developed to allow clients to still be able to communicate in the event that they are unable to obtain an IP address from a DHCP server. When enabled, the client chooses a random address from a special reserved block of private IP addresses, and checks to make sure the address is not already in use by another device. It continues to check for a DHCP server periodically until it is able to find one. |
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